Route 91 festival survivors file lawsuits against promoters and hotel bosses

Hundreds of music fans who survived the Route 91 Harvest Festival massacre in Las Vegas have filed lawsuits seeking damages from the event’s promoters and Mandalay Bay hotel bosses.
Over 450 victims of the 1 October (17) shooting incident, which cost almost 60 people their lives, claim they are facing a lifetime of psychological and physical issues.
The Los Angeles Times reports over 15 lawsuits have already been filed since the tragedy, and new actions lodged on Monday (20Nov17) named the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and its owner MGM Resorts International as defendants. The festival’s promoter, Live Nation, was also named as a defendant, as was the estate of slain gunman Stephen Paddock.
In the new suits, lawyers for the victims have accused Mandalay Bay bosses of breaching their “duty of reasonable care” by failing to notice Paddock was stockpiling guns in his hotel room, from which he opened fire on the festival crowd as headliner Jason Aldean was onstage.
A statement from MGM Resorts International reads: “The incident that took place on October 1st was a terrible tragedy perpetrated by an evil man. These kinds of lawsuits are not unexpected and we intend to defend ourselves against them. That said, out of respect for the victims, we will give our response through the appropriate legal channels.”
The plaintiff’s lawyers also argue there were not adequate exits at the Route 91 Harvest Festival and staff were poorly trained and inexperienced.
According to the attorneys, over 30 plaintiffs were shot, and two were family members of individuals that were killed at the Route 91 event.
Las Vegas bands The Killers and Imagine Dragons will headline a benefit marking the two-month anniversary of the tragedy in Sin City on 1 December (17).